ISBN:
9781443808927
,
144380892X
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (ix, 209 p.)
,
ill.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Scarparo, Susanna Violent Depictions : Representing Violence Across Cultures
DDC:
303.6
Keywords:
Violent crimes Cross-cultural studies
;
Violence Moral and ethical aspects
;
Violence Cross-cultural studies
;
Violence in literature
;
Violence in mass media
;
Violent crimes Cross-cultural studies
;
Violence Moral and ethical aspects
;
Violence Cross-cultural studies
;
Violence Cross-cultural studies
;
Violence in literature
;
Violent crimes Cross-cultural studies
;
Violence Moral and ethical aspects
;
Violence in mass media
;
Violence Cross-cultural studies
;
Violent crimes Cross-cultural studies
;
Violence Moral and ethical aspects
;
Violence in literature
;
Violence in mass media
;
Violence in society
;
Violence
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General
;
Violent crimes
;
Cross-cultural studies
;
Electronic books Cross-cultural studies
Abstract:
Anything and everything may come under the rubric of violence in a society that is by and large addicted to the images of violence that are an inescapable part of contemporary reality. In the wake of recent international events, many have come to accept the perpetration of violence as morally acceptable and a just enterprise towards peace. But what is violence? How do we identify something or somebody as violent? Is violence justifiable? If so, under what circumstances? Violent Depictions add
Description / Table of Contents:
Pt. 1. Women and violencept. 2. Visual violence -- pt. 3. The ghosts of violence.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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